President Trump is reportedly considering firing Army General John Nicholson, the commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan.

New White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly told Attorney General Jeff Sessions that President Trump "did not plan to fire him or hope he would resign."

Sen. Rand Paul: "Civil asset forfeiture turns the justice system on its head."

"Results from a controversial election for a new Venezuelan political assembly were 'manipulated' and are off by at least 1 million participants, the company that provided the voting system said Wednesday."

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Trump: a liar, a buffoon, a statist, a war monger, a big government asshole, a protectionist, and does not appear to be very bright when it comes to free market economics.

And yet all of Washington DC and the corrupt propaganda press hates his guts and he has already done some work to roll back business crippling regulations.

There is some value there.

Is the enemy of my enemy my friend or the enemy of my enemy my enemy or is trump just playing foil to the scam and they are all deep down just colluding to protect the FED, the military-ind complex, entitlements, and to keep the debt rolling? Our largest yokes around the neck are untouchable still.

I think the “anchor baby” fear is both more focused on the longer term implications (i.e. eventually that “anchor baby” will turn 21 and bring their family into US) and the soft feelz implications (i.e. Republicans don’t seem so bad when their bouncing illegal immigrants, but they seem horribly cruel when they’re throwing out an illegal immigrant who has a baby that’s an american citizen; and that parent has to make the heart-wrenching decision of whether or not to leave their baby in the US).

So, yeah, there is such thing. No opinion offered on how valid that concern is.

Regardless of how much it raises illegal immigration (and it would), it also proves the ridiculous of the position claimed by him and his many supporters that they’re cool with legal immigration… just not illegal. But, I’m sure we can all agree that too many legal immigrants was one of the biggest problems we were facing?

“President Donald Trump’s approval rating has dropped to 33 percent in a new poll.”

The legislation would award points based on education, ability to speak English, high-paying job offers, age, record of achievement and entrepreneurial initiative. But while it would still allow spouses and minor children of Americans and legal residents to come in, it would eliminate preferences for other relatives, like siblings and adult children. The bill would create a renewable temporary visa for older-adult parents who come for caretaking purposes.

So the cries of “tearing families apart!” from the usual suspects are largely BS. What a surprise.

1. Why is allowing more people into America making the World a better place and is right?

2. Politicians are largely liars and flip-flop. Trump said he wanted to control immigration and he has. Definitely there has been better control on immigration policy than most administrations in the last 40+ years.

3. Is there a “right” setting? I support zero illegal immigration and less legal immigration. 50%+ less legal immigration is fine with me.

Jokes aside, it’s more than you deserve, but I’ll try to answer honestly:

1. I wouldn’t be here if my ancestors hadn’t risked everything they had to cross the ocean to get here, for which I am eternally grateful. Anyone suffering in their own country who is willing to work hard and make a better life for themselves deserves that same chance.

2. Don’t feel the need to respond to meaningless pro-Trump propaganda

3. Why do you want any legal immigration at all? What would you say to a Trump supporter who thinks the proper amount of legal immigration is zero?

1. Congratulations on your ancestors probably going thru Ellis Island or San Francisco port authority. They were allowed to come and become Americans because as many new Americans were needed to make develop America. How would letting in immigrants to America make the World a better place? It lets people off the hook to make THEIR country better.

See your assumption is flawed. There are already hundreds of millions of hard working Americans who want a better life. Non-Americans don’t deserve shit from America. If we Americans want to let in thousands of immigrants, then so be it.

2. I know propaganda is only things you don’t like. You don’t like immigration controls, so when Trump ran on immigration controls and is doing it, you call it propaganda.

3. I personally don’t care if there is zero immigration. That is not fair to Americans who marry foreigners but for all other non-Americans, I don’t really care. I would say that zero immigration should only last a couple years and then re-evaluate the policy.

How are the borders being “controlled” more compared to previous administrations? Has illegal immigration fallen to zero? I thought that would have been on the news. Seems to me the amount of control has gone unchanged, but the amount of propaganda about it from the White House has increased several-fold.

If we Americans want to let in thousands of immigrants, then so be it.

As I pointed out below, Americans broadly support maintaining or increasing levels of immigration. It’s actually decreasing immigration that is the unpopular minority position. All you have is lies, just like Trump.

How are the borders being “controlled” more compared to previous administrations? Has illegal immigration fallen to zero? I thought that would have been on the news. Seems to me the amount of control has gone unchanged, but the amount of propaganda about it from the White House has increased several-fold.If we Americans want to let in thousands of immigrants, then so be it. As I pointed out below, Americans broadly support maintaining or increasing levels of immigration. It’s actually decreasing immigration that is the unpopular minority position. All you have is lies, just like Trump.

Illegal immigration is down 67% since Trump took office, according to the Washington Times.WT illegal immigration

Its anecdotal but I know two Mexicans who said their goodbyes to go back and apply. This way they don’t get caught and be prohibited from applying for visas to the USA.

I would say your assumption, because it not based on fact, is incorrect that Americans want MORE immigration. Trump ran on controlling immigration and he won. At least 62M people were for Trump, so they knew it would probably happen. I voted for Gay Jay but I support stricter immigration controls.

Is there a good, compelling reason to limit immigration more than it is?

We may have different answers to those questions. But the assumed default position should never be the one that is more restrictive if you give a crap about freedom. It’s like asking why we need 23 kind of deodorant.

Yeah, Hillary lost and Trump won. So your little pipe dream will never happen.

lol, almost never gets old watching Trumptards trot out tired lines like this (almost). Next you’ll tell me that my real problem is that I hate America and don’t want to see it made great again.

In point of fact, only 35% of Americans want immigration curtailed. So Trump’s attempt at reducing legal immigration is actually contrary to the wishes of most Americans. But don’t let facts get in the way of you sucking the dick of authoritarians like Trump.

paranoid android|8.3.17 @ 12:57PM|#Yeah, Hillary lost and Trump won. So your little pipe dream will never happen. lol, almost never gets old watching Trumptards trot out tired lines like this (almost). Next you’ll tell me that my real problem is that I hate America and don’t want to see it made great again. In point of fact, only 35% of Americans want immigration curtailed. So Trump’s attempt at reducing legal immigration is actually contrary to the wishes of most Americans. But don’t let facts get in the way of you sucking the dick of authoritarians like Trump.

I know you think anyone who points out the utter flaws in your reasoning must be some Trump supporter. I actually find it annoying that I need to point the things Trump is doing right, since I did not vote for Trump. This is Reason after all but we have numerous LINOs like yourself. I would much rather be discussing the thing Trump is doing wrong like overseas military ventures but the Neo-Cons, Treasonites, and lefties love war.

Gallup? Isn’t the same company that has a lefty agenda and had Hillary ahead in the election by 25 points? Clearly you have not figured out there are tens of millions of conservative voters who don’t answer polls AND want immigration controlled.

Get all lefty dicks out of your mouth before you choke.

The best thing about Trump in office is that lefties like you are so outed that you can never again say your anything but a lefty retard.

I would much rather be discussing the thing Trump is doing wrong like overseas military ventures but the Neo-Cons, Treasonites, and lefties love war.

I want to frame this sentence and put it on a wall. Just beautiful. “Treasonites”. That’s gold.

Gallup? Isn’t the same company that has a lefty agenda and had Hillary ahead in the election by 25 points? Clearly you have not figured out there are tens of millions of conservative voters who don’t answer polls AND want immigration controlled.

“I know propaganda is only things you don’t like.” Someone told me that once, can’t remember who. I was actually going to make a joke in my previous post about “The script says this is the part where you call all polls and statistics ‘fake news’ so you can dismiss them” but forgot.

The best thing about Trump in office is that lefties like you are so outed that you can never again say your anything but a lefty retard.

Oh, no! I’m “outed”! Whatever will I do!? How can I go on now that loveconstitution1789 has exposed my terrible secret!?

In point of fact, only 35% of Americans want immigration curtailed. So Trump’s attempt at reducing legal immigration is actually contrary to the wishes of most Americans. But don’t let facts get in the way of you sucking the dick of authoritarians like Trump.

Actually, when you look at that survey–that triumphantly touts the fact that only 35% of Americans want immigration decreased, you don’t immediately notice that 38% of Americans want immigration levels to remain where they are.

So 73% of Americans want immigration levels to stay the same or decrease.

Only 24% want immigration levels increased.

But, fear not–if you report it as “only 35% of Americans want immigration curtailed”, stupid people will assume that means that 65% of Americans want it to increase.

“AMERICA” can’t “take people in.” The US Fed Gov can only (try to) keep people out. Of what is, in fact, other people’s property.

Liberty assumes freedom of movement. That’s a pretty fundamental liberty. The default shouldn’t be “US Fed Gov prevents freedom of movement unless we can find justification for it.” The default should be “US Fed Gov preserves freedom of movement unless there is a compelling reason to not do so.”

Unlabelable MJGreen|8.3.17 @ 12:50PM|# Nice fantasy. In the real world, no nation practices that. This can be said about every libertarian position, and yet here we are…

Actually, no Libertarian position is fantasy. They all are active or used to be active.

Free market exists in many forms with business. The Constitution protects more rights than any country that I can think of. Drugs used to be legal and the current prohibition on marijuana is rapidly disappearing.

Square = Circle|8.3.17 @ 12:36PM|# “AMERICA” can’t “take people in.” The US Fed Gov can only (try to) keep people out. Of what is, in fact, other people’s property. Liberty assumes freedom of movement. That’s a pretty fundamental liberty. The default shouldn’t be “US Fed Gov prevents freedom of movement unless we can find justification for it.” The default should be “US Fed Gov preserves freedom of movement unless there is a compelling reason to not do so.”

That “other people’s property” is in fact territory belonging to the United States as ratified by the 13 states and every subsequent state admitted to the Union. Majority leadership dictates immigration policy in the USA and that is Trump and a Republican Congress.

You do have freedom of movement in the USA. If you have a passport, you can freely move in and out of the USA.

There is no default to a compelling interest and there should not be one. Americans have the right to control its borders through our elected government.

Bacteria have territories. Viruses have territories. It’s private property all the way down to the atoms and up to the multiverses. And everyone’s gonna shoot you if you don’t get permission to step on what’s theirs.

You have the right to abandon what’s yours–you do not have the right to take what belongs to someone else.

‘Freedom of movement’ is a leftist construction created to undermine the fact that we let people come and go freely while nations that have succumbed to leftism tend to shoot people who try to leave–it attempts to cast aspersions on the idea that we don’t let everyone in.

And it’s succeeded beyond anyone’s nightmares–because it LOOKS like it should be a right–but it is a ‘right’ that’s based on the idea that no one can own property.

The correct question for someone who thinks that the whole country is the collective property of something called “AMERICA”, I suppose. Not for someone who cares at all about limited government and individual liberty.

“I support very limited government and maximum individual liberty. That’s why we need to spend billions of dollars on a see-through wall, hire a small army of border patrol agents to brutalize non-violent people, and entrench a police state that can go all Paper’s Please on anyone within a hundred miles of a border crossing”

You incorrectly assume that American Liberty means that I have to be okay with allowing in hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Nope. I acknowledge that there is room for disagreement on the issue. I just think the burden of justification lies with the people who want the more restrictive government policy. That burden must always be on the people who want to use force to control what people can do.

Leave people alone and don’t interfere with their peaceful interactions is the default if you care about individual liberty.

No they aren’t. Just go to any of the pro-Trump Republican sites out there with comments on this story. You will see a diversity of opinion – all the way from “This is exactly what America needs” to “This is only a start”. SOME agree with you, but a large number want ZERO immigration, legal or illegal.

“Results from a controversial election for a new Venezuelan political assembly were ‘manipulated’ and are off by at least 1 million participants, the company that provided the voting system said Wednesday.”

It doesn’t have to be one or the other. The oil money somewhat disguised the failures of socialism. WHen oil prices collapsed, it quickly became apparent how much the oil-backed socialism fucked their whole economy and social structure.

Yes, it seems pretty obvious that it’s both — high oil prices facilitate generous social welfare schemes and paper over other weaknesses in the socialist economy; when oil prices drop, the weaknesses are more rapidly exposed.

You do realize that polling for getting national approval ratings and forecasting election results are not the same thing, right? Virtually all polling outfits were within the margin of error on forecasting Clinton’s final margin of victory in the popular vote; their errors were in the distribution of votes at the state level. But state level distribution is irrelevant to a national approval rating.

Its the flawed process that IS the same. You can make excuses all your want. The simple fact is that polling is a scam and every company and “poll” that I have seen is okay with shoddy statistics and use biased and small pools of people polled.

Its why silent majorities destroy the poll results. Statistics is almost voodoo anyway and then add in companies that are too lazy to actually poll people they should know will oppose their biased predetermined result and you get election 2016.

The polls I was paying attention to had Trump and Clinton so close it was within the margin of error.

There were polls that had Clinton ahead by as much as 12 points (ABC I think). In one of the DNC emails, Podesta was talking about oversampling in demographics where Clinton does well to inflate her in the polls. That’s probably why Clinton friendly media outlets show Clinton with better leads than what reality represented.

When you look at popularity of congressfolk with their respective voters, the picture gets a lot more rosy. So while folk are deeply unhappy with congress-at-large, they think that their congresscritter is doing a good-enough job.

The stock market has some connection to economic reality but it is mainly a giant game of chicken. Yep.

Which is why it’s particularly tragic that it’s still the second-best? bet for retirement savings. ________ ?The most reliably strategy, of course, is “have rich parents”, but the vast majority of folks fail are hopeless at that strategy, and end up turning to lesser options.

I don’t know much about Flake but as far as I know he’s in there with the Rand Paul/Justin Amash/TEA Party group and if he’s got shithead swamp creatures like Brent Bozell III (the one who wanted to award Sean Hannity the WFB media excellence prize, and not as a joke, either) then he’s probably just getting flak for not towing the party lion in pretending Trump is the second coming of Calvin Coolidge. Fuck these Cheeto Jesus worshippers.

Lena Dunham called out to American Airlines after she overheard two flight attendants “having a transphobic talk.” On Tuesday, the “Girls” star took to Twitter to share her ordeal at the JFK International Airport after her flight was delayed.

Sen. Rand Paul: “Civil asset forfeiture turns the justice system on its head.”

Wait, Rand Paul is in favor of asset forfeiture? I thought the knock on asset forfeiture was that it made it only too clear exactly how the justice system worked, turning the justice system on its head would be a good thing, wouldn’t it?

Taylor Sheridan, the writer-director, kept that unbridgeable distance in mind when he told his casting team: Hire Native American actors for Native American roles.

“I wasn’t going to sit here and tell a story about very real issues,” namely sexual violence against women in Indian Country, “and cast people to portray characters in that world suffering those burdens and not have some connection,” Mr. Sheridan, who is not Native American, told me. He hired, among others, Mr. Sensmeier (of Tlingit and Koyukon-Athabascan heritage), Graham Greene (Oneida) and Julia Jones (Choctaw and Chickasaw).

Mr. Sheridan admitted, “There was someone far and away that was the best, but I didn’t hire them because they were not Native American.” He even told his casting directors that when it came to auditioning actors, “Don’t even read them unless you can vet the authentic nature of their ancestry.”

What’s so hard about casting Indian actors? You mean, besides the fact that there are only like 20 Indians left?

Ethnic fact: casting a Tlingit, an Oneida, and a Choctaw to play Arapahoes and thinking it’s “authentic” is culturally the same thing as casting an Irishman, a Bosnian, and a Swede to play “authentic” French people.

Sheridan’s been writing some good movies, but dang that’s a silly extreme. Can’t the “connection” they have be gender or just plain human, rather than tribal or racial? And can’t you make one exception for someone who was far and away the best?

If Trump was really against illegal immigration he’d adopt an open borders policy and overnight there’d be no more illegal immigrants. Kinda like winning the war on drugs – declare them all legal and you can pack your bags and go home.

Kinda like winning the war on drugs – declare them all legal and you can pack your bags and go home. Except I’d be fine with doing that with the “war on drugs”, but think immigration needs a little more control then such open measures?. ________ ?Different then what we have now, mind you, but not willy-nilly.

After reveling in the horror genre for virtually all of his directorial career, Eli Roth is switching gears slightly with his next project as he heads into action-thriller territory with a remake of 1974’s Death Wish. Scripted by Joe Carnahan and starring Bruce Willis, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of a November release.

On the chaotic day the Trump administration’s travel ban went into effect, high-level Homeland Security officials directed their staff at airports around the country to stiff-arm members of Congress and treat lawyers with deep suspicion.

I mean…

A CBP official wrote in an email on Jan. 28 that the agency’s employees were forbidden from speaking to members of Congress.

“As stated on the call earlier today, you and your staff are NOT to engage with the media or Congressional representatives at this time,” emailed Todd Owen, the executive assistant commissioner of CBP’s Office of Field Operations, at 7:49 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28. “Please make sure your subordinate Port Directors are following this direction. Please report any such requests to acting AC[REDACTED] from Congressional Affairs. Thank you.”

It just hit me again: Donald Trump is President of the United States. His portrait’s gonna be in textbooks for hundreds of years at least. His name will be next to Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Lincoln…

I still think in the long run Trump will be good for the USA. He is being lambasted and criticized unlike the previous God-Emperor. This is a nice reset. He is making people actually consider the danger of so much power concentrated in one person. While exposing his foibles, the public is getting a great look at the creeps who inhabit D.C. and the Mainstream Media.

I’m cynical on that point. I don’t think more than a small number of people will take this lesson to heart and remember it after Clinton or Harris or Rubio or whoever ‘respectable’ gets into the office next.

I see it as slightly analogous to the SJW’s coming out and showing their true colors lately. In the short term, it is disturbing, but in the long term, I predict a massive backlash by the silent, sane populous. In other words, they’ve been given all the rope they need to hang themselves.

In recent years, there seems to be a significant pushback against 20 years or so of Politically Correct bullshit.

In recent years, there seems to be a significant pushback against 20 years or so of Politically Correct bullshit.

I’ll go full cynic for just a second: no such thing as happened. What’s really going on is that the right has decided to invent and enforce its own version of political correctness. There’s very broad overlap between the people who mock “snowflakes” with their “safe spaces” on college campuses and those who applaud interrupting and shutting down productions of Julius Caesar that offend their own delicate sensibilities. The “silent, sane populous” doesn’t exist; to the extent it does, their numbers are absolutely dwarfed by those who are on board for the Red vs. Blue hate-fest 24/7/365.

He is making people actually consider the danger of so much power concentrated in one person.

I wish I could share your optimism. It seems extraordinarily more likely that the next administration will be given even more latitude because it will be seen as a necessary step to “right the ship”, “clean up Trump’s mess” and so on. This will go double if the next president is a Democrat.

Every celebrity rant against Trump might have caused a net gain for him.

Look at the Ossoff race–a blank slate who the Dems thought they could download POPULISM.exe to, like a white Obama, that was relentlessly pimped by celebrity endorsers. As if they should have any influence in a House Rep race in the middle of Georgia.